And The Rest

She/they. This is now a Sims 2 blog.

[voltsm]

requests - cassandra and don

[simborg]

Some more stuff for the boys!

@teaaddictyt uploaded some clothes for our men a year ago here. Now I made some edits on the adult meshes (I don't use elder meshes for elders, so I didn't touch them sorry).

I've changed a few bone assignments, edited the UV map slightly, smoothed normals, and I think that's it?

Then I converted them to teens and made some recolors.

Before we start with the downloads, teens are repo'd to adult so you need Tea's custom files from here at the bottom of their post.

If you only want my recolors you don't need them of couse, but would you not want them?!?!

Leather Jerkin by SimmieV at TSR.

Included in the download:

Teen conversion of Tea's 3 recolors

SimmieV's 5 recolors that Tea didn't do, for teen/adult

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

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Peasant Vest by SimmieV at TSR.

Included in the download:

SimmieV's 2 recolors that Tea didn't do, for teen/adult

Edited adult mesh and edited teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

Medieval Long-Sleeved top by Natalia Auditore.

Included in the download:

Teen conversion of Tea's 17 recolors

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

Common Tabard by SimmieV at TSR.

Included in the download:

Teen conversion of Tea's 9 recolors

SimmieV's 3 recolors that Tea didn't do, for teen/adult

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

Leather Brais by SimmieV at TSR.

Included in the download:

Teen conversion of Tea's 3 recolors

SimmieV's 5 recolors that Tea didn't do, for teen/adult

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

Peasant Brais by SimmieV at TSR.

Included in the download:

Teen conversion of Tea's 10 recolors (5 with stockings/5 without)

SimmieV's 6 recolors that Tea didn't do, for teen/adult (3 with stockings/3 without)

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

TSM Alchemist Pants by Simverse.

Included in the download:

My fixed adult "04" and "05", they were not repositioned correctly

Teen conversion of Tea's 5 recolors

My 11 recolors (originally by Simverse), for teen/adult

Edited adult mesh and my converted teen mesh (both have fat/preg morphs)

DOWNLOAD

Hope you like them and do tell me if I messed something up :)

[deedee-sims]

Two unisex hairs for today (requested by anon)

They're recolors only.

6 natural colors, gray linked to black. Meshes and bodyshop swatches are included, enjoy! :)

Credits: Eaxis, Platinumaspiration, Simgaroop

Download EP20 Double Rope (3.2K polys) - Alternate

Download EP20 Twist Back (4.8K polys) - Alternate

[sesquedoodle]

Test of Time Challenge: Generation 2, part 16

The season of love and of new life.

On to the Water family! Tide tries to tame the local wolves, while Spring makes a different kind of friend...

Tide became an elder quite early in the round.

Age did not dim her passions one bit... yes, that's Diamond Earth there. Her sister's husband. Smart choice, Tide.

Spring wasn't only interested in romancing Fierce Fang; she got along (platonically) with Shell Earth well enough to give herself a good reputation.

And - oh.

Kia, this is too many puppies. Say hello to Vaia, Ral, Bar, and Chi.

Help.

I'm trying Sun and Moon's fishing mod, instead of the maxis fishing. I like how there's a greater variety of fish, and they can be processed before putting them in the fridge. I don't like that if I leave the fishing rod in a sim's inventory (it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise they could fish without having one) but let them run out of bait I get constant, "I can't fish without bait," popups as they autonomously go for the fishing hole. I'll probably only use it with this family.

Next time: summer and the Fang family.

[sesquedoodle]

Test of Time Challenge: Generation 2, part 15

They laboured hard and rested well.

Earth family, part 2!

Stone, Flint and Faun had managed to establish a good farm for themselves, with a variety of crops, a newly planted olive tree, and a breeding pair of sheep.

Baby Holly aged up to a toddler. She's very active and fairly neat, but very serious as well. Her star sign is Scorpio.

Flint continued to spend time with Tide Water. They're basically perfect for each other: both are romance sims, neither are interested in anything long-term and are happy for the other to have their own affairs (so to speak), but they keep coming back together anyway.

Faun, however, did not trust Tide around her husband (and, to be fair, she had reason not to - I missed exactly what happened, but ACR apparently had them cheating). She made her feelings very clear, and it did not go well for her.

It was not her husband, Stone, but Flint who bargained with the shade to spare her. Who can say if it was luck or destiny that had him succeed? Faun lived to fight another day...

...and became an elder.

Things were still rocky between Stone and Faun, but Stone was thankful for his brother's intervention.

Laurel mostly kept her distance from the adults' drama. Her family clearly loved her very much, but it still hurt to see her parents turn on each other.

The end of the season brought new life in the form of lambs, though a wild animal got their father.

I promise I'll remember to leave the UI one of these days. I have quite a backlog of pics, so I took all of these quite a long time ago.

[sesquedoodle]

Test of Time Challenge: Generation 2, part 14

In the main Earth household, Pebble aged up to a toddler.She's a Capricorn; extremely neat, playful, and nice; shy and lazy.

The family had managed to tame some goats, who would hopefully provide milk and (through their offspring) meat in future.

Sandy and Shell, being the oldest, found themselves working hard to help with household chores and help raise their younger siblings. Diamond and Wave did their best to be good parents, of course, but they only had two hands each.

Sadly, it was time for Kay to go with the shade into whatever awaited in the next world.

Isla and Pearl became children.

It was good to have more hands to help with fishing, even if they weren't catching very much yet. Shell and Sandy had a little more freedom to pursue their own interests - Shell is a fortune sim and wanted to make money, so even though her hobby is actually games I had her get into painting and pottery as well. Sandy is a family sim, so more of a hopeless romantic - I'm not sure Fierce Fang will be a good match for her, since his aspiration is romance, but there's no harm in letting them have a teen fling.

I think Cliff misses Kay, because he's been trying to befriend the local wolf pack.

Wave became an elder...

...and Cliff and Gully became teens. Cliff's aspiration is popularity, his turn-ons are Charismatic and Athletic, and his turn-off is Mechanical (which is hilarious for a guy with the tinkering hobby). He's also gay, which might make things a little difficult - one, he's the family heir, and two, so far there are no other boys his age who like boys. Gully is a knowledge sim. Her turn-ons are Makeup and Logical, her turn-off is Swimwear, and she's straight.

Frickin' ghosts.

Shell decided to get to know Fierce Fang as well... this definitely won't cause problems.

Pebble became a child by the end of the round, so I had to re-arrange the kids' room a little to fit everyone in. These small lots are making my life quite difficult, but I'm supposed to keep using them until the Roman stage, so...

And I'm still not remembering the UI. I'm so sorry! Next up is the younger Earth brothers, Stone and Flint, along with Stone's family.

[tedsies]

sun&moon items in 3 different 4t2 wood textures (30 recolours in total)

so after sharing my 4t2 retextures of the meadhall sets, and then getting this message from anon, i decided to go ahead and do something to similar for a bunch of sun&moon's functional farming stuff 😁

all of the wooden items from their barnyard bash set, which you see most of above, are actually referenced to a wine cask shelf mesh in their wine making set, so you'll need both that wine cask mesh, and then the barnyard bash set itself, in order for these recolours to show up.

these recolours will also show up for some items in the winery set itself too, and maybe even some other sun&moon items as well?? i personally only play with a couple of the sets, so i can't be sure about the others!

i ended up going with 3 different wood textures from the ts4 'horse ranch' pack for these. i've included images of all swatches in the download folder, but the above image of the troughs hopefully shows the differences between each wood texture (for ref, i've named them rustic, plank and natural from l-r).

note: you might notice in these images that i've also made 4t2 retextures of the straw and bird-feed in each of the poultry items. i was originally intending to share these too, but then i realised that would be going against sun&moon's policy as it would require sharing altered versions of those meshes. sorry!! 🙁

let me know of any issues!

and thanks to the incredible @sunmoon-starfactory for the original items 🤩

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[guessimate]

CC-free custom hood - Baiji - the Snowy Horizon Ultimate Collection required, camera mod required

Download Populated

Bonus: list of sims (make your own copy to use the spreadsheet)

The neighbourhood includes 11 mostly unrelated households, each with a family album and bios (no scripted events).

The families

Tian household

consisting of the Emperor, his advisor, and his newly adopted son

Suggested scenario: Have the Emperor adopt one more child. Note: this is meant to be done without any sort of adoption mod; there is a toddler waiting in the adoption pool.

Sun household

consisting of 3 roommates and the child of one of them

This house can be played as a ticket machine home business, but it doesn't have to be. The idea is that it's a mahjong parlor/hostess business, where customers pay to spend time with the hostesses, playing mahjong.

Pan household

consisting of an adult spy and his apprentice

Think John Mole, but with an apprentice who helps him gather intel at the local school.

Sima household

consisting of a married couple and their sons

Think the Grunts, but Lyla is alive, and the to-be-general is still climbing the ranks of the Military career. Suggested scenario: Have the husband try to repair his relationship with his wife. If you use ACR, you can easily mend it, but otherwise they should fall out of love.

Xi household

consisting of a single mother and her rebellious daughter

An aspiring scientist is disappointed in her daughter, who is not as serious as she would like. While she has her daughter's best interest at heart, her good intentions don't always translate into the kindest actions.

Chao household

consisting of a single father and his sons

The town's folk healer hopes one of his sons will agree to take over the clinic and continue the fight against plagues. He hopes they will not only work in the Medicine career, but also use traditional remedies, like herbs, grandma's comfort soup and acupressure.

Qiu household

consisting of a broke teenager

I suggest playing this household as a home business selling produce. If that's not for you, find any other way to pay the bills and keep the house safe from the Repo Man!

Ning household

consisting of a father and his son

The Ning patriarch is preparing for his final journey. Perhaps he can witness his son's betrothal and wedding ceremony, before his departure?

The Gilberts and the Thorntons

two families consisting of newlyweds

These households were inspired by 'mistakes'? in Maxis lore, specifically the Bell family, where teenagers didn't end up with their childhood sweethearts. One couple seems happy and is considering starting a family, while the other couple 'settled' for each other and may not be fully content.

The Wizard

and his cat

This household serves to explain why the 'mainland' is empty and why everyone else moved to the island. The wizard was also the first sim created in this hood, so he will be the 'shoving' sim. Unfortunately, because he's a wizard, he will not shove your sims, but he will simply fly away.

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Technical information and mod suggestions:

To play this neighbourhood, place the whole VERS folder in Documents > EA Games > The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection > Neighborhoods folder.

I have been working on this hood since late July (terrain), the buildings were built by October, and the version with service NPC-s was released at the very end of 2025.

Warning: NO GARDEN CLUB members, and NO HOBBY INSTRUCTORS were created by me, so if you want to avoid generating them, ban them with Visitor Controller, or use a mod to disable them, for example this one.

The mods suggested for the previous version of this hood are still recommended.

Additionally, I suggest you get epi's Committed Polyamorous Relationships Without Engagement Requires Steady, if you're interested in the emperor having multiple consorts.

I also strongly recommend getting these Want Trees.

When I created the hood, I used the Shiny Tyme Anywhere Patch. This might mean that the cafeteria worker will spawn at the Imperial Palace, unless you remove the stove and replace it with another one.

This is not required by any means, but I also recommend getting Genetics DIY, Improved Biotech Station, Mean Interactions to Any Age, hacked arch, Crafting Skills and Tweaks mod...

As in the previous versions of the hood, I suggest turning the 4 blue lots into apartments (if you wish to play with apartments). To do so, you need to load the lots and type in changeLotZoning apartmentbase. I still suggest getting a mod like Apartment Residents Mod or similar, if you do play with apartments. Other recommended mods preventing extra sims from spawning: anti-redundancy, No Stray Respawn with Adoptable Puppies/Kittens.

The playables reside in the lots marked orange. There is one more playable household, outside of the island, in the mainland. The pink lots are community lots.

I have an appreciation for Chinese culture, but I don't know much about it, or the Chinese language. I apologize if the names of characters are a bit random. They were found while I was doing my very simple google research. I didn't have anyone who would proofread the hood for me and suggest better names. If you are a speaker of Chinese and you would like to volunteer and help me improve this world, I encourage you to contact me.

I am open to any feedback from anyone who decides to download the hood. Let me know if you found routing or other issues. Let me know of any text mistakes too!

Thanks to @auntiebobo2025 for testing out an earlier version of the neighbourhood and providing feedback.

The mystery?

I was trying to set up a little mystery, but little came out of it. If you want to learn the mystery, I will spoil it below.

Don't scroll down if you don't want to see the mystery.

Don't look to the next line if you don't want to see the mystery.

OK, you've been warned, now to the mystery.

Just so you know, you can find small clues regarding the mystery if you use the simDNA cheat. That cheat only works if you have boolprop testingCheatsEnabled true in your Documents > Config > userStartup.cheat file.

I meant the parentage of specific children to be the mystery.

Although the sims in this hood don't have family trees, I made almost all playables in CAS, with parents that never left Create a Sim. However, the process wasn't perfect, because I would merge grandparents' genes with the use of the pacifier to make the 'donor', and I did it 2-3 times, so his genetics were not always the same (multiple families were created separately with a similar donor). I had him create children with a couple of playable ladies.

Can you guess who these ladies were? You can probably guess the 'donor'.

Happy Lunar Year of the Horse!

[sesquedoodle]

Test of Time Challenge: Generation 2, part 13

The riches of the earth were brought forth with flame.

Metalworking seems like a good skill for the Fire bloodline to develop, and while this is still officially a Sky household, Flare is the Fire heir, so...

Dragon Fire became a toddler early in the round. He's extremely outgoing and nice (ten points in each!), but sloppy, lazy and serious. His star sign is Libra.

Claw had to split his time between fatherhood and mining for these strange ores his wife had learned to smelt, but grandad Sky was happy to chip in. (I use this conversation icons default replacement, but it doesn't seem to work on teaching toddlers.)

Flare gave birth to a daughter, Phoenix Fire, and with that I have no more cool-sounding names that combine animal and fire themes.

Aki became an elder - and as it turns out, you CAN teach an old dog new tricks.

The new baby did not mend the cracks that were forming in Claw and Flare's relationship, though. Claw was still angry about Flare's moment with Flint Earth at the beginning of spring.

Phoenix became a toddler. She's much neater and more active than her brother, but just as nice - and just as serious. Her star sign is Virgo.

She was well loved.

Dragon aged up again by the end of the round, and started making friends with his second cousin (?) Sparrow.

And I'm still forgetting about the UI. Earth family next!

[hazelpuff]

4t2 Hair Conversions

Requested hair conversions part 1! So sorry that this took such a long time to share since I've made the wip post - I had to tweak a lot of stuff and learn again some stuff about converting that I've already forgotten ^^'... and I also started doing a clothing conversion and I hate bones assignments very much </3, especially when you figure out that maybe that's not bones assignments fault that something it's out of place, and maybe it's just the way you placed the mesh itself on the body but still you're like 65% sure that's the reason. ANYWAY! HERE ARE THE DOWNLOAD LIKS FOR THE HAIRS AND LIL BIT OF INFO FOR THEM:

'Jane' (male/female, tf-ef, 24k poly) MALE DL | FEMALE DL

'Lady in waiting' (female, cf-ef, 12k poly) DOWNLOAD

'Muse' (female, tf-ef, 19k tiara ver, 17k no tiara ver) TIARA | NO TIARA

'Clarice Bun v3' (female, cf-ef, 12k poly) DOWNLOAD

credits: thatonegreeleaf, vixxiesims, goldenrosesims, simstrouble, rheallsim

& screenshoot showing the back of the 'Jane' hairstyle under the cut

hi

[alanna-goth]

one of my reshade shaders got fucked up but doesn’t the grunt house look scary af or what?

[buddydolly]

hey is that the steve buscemi sun replacement?

[sesquedoodle]

Test of Time Challenge: Generation 2, part 12

In time, the tribes learned to master the beasts of the field.

Back with the Sky family, and I'm dabbling with Sun and Moon's Barnyard Bash mod. Time for agriculture! Maybe that shouldn't happen until the Roman stage but whatever, I was bored.

Cloud really needed that skill point. They managed to get the fire under control, though.

Sparrow was being very sociable this round. Now that Wild Fang is an adult, he isn't quite mature enough for her. Her sister Tiger, on the other hand...

Cloud was getting good at leather tanning.

Robin aged up into a teenager! He's a cutie and I love him. He's a family sim, his turn-ons are Logical and Great Cook, his turn-off is Formalwear, and he's straight.

Baby Finch also grew up into a toddler, so we can finally look at his personality. Turns out he's a Gemini, which in this case makes him very outgoing and active and sort of middling everywhere else.

They built a proper pen for their sheep. Hopefully they'd be able to breed a larger herd from these two. Robin gets stuck cleaning up dung because I'm horrible and give the younger sims the nasty chores.

I made up for it by giving him some time off to flirt with Shell Earth while the others were foraging. It's a LOT easier to use the Sun and Moon Rabbit Holes mod than give each of my households all the resource-producing-stuff they might need.

While I was on the community lot, this happened.

And then they got home and set the kitchen on fire again. Great job, kids.

Rabbit has joined her husband in elderhood.

The Sky family's main trade right now is leatherwork, and I'm hoping that with the sheep I can eventually add weaving to that, but right now most of their offerings to the gods are fish.

Both Wren and Finch did some good skill-building this round.

Once again, I forgot about keeping the UI on. That's it for the main Sky household this round; we'll check in with Star Sky and his family next time.

[brandinotbroke]

yes yes GOS is down i get it

but i think this is an appropriate time to tell all of you that internet archive/wayback machine is *also* not safe for making backups

they have repeatedly been the target of legal battles, some of which they have already lost (see here and here) and which have nearly bankrupted them

so putting everything on the internet archive and calling it a day is a majorly stupid idea. Ideally, we'd need SEVERAL backups of everything, in different places.

[twentyfourfirst-sims]

Garden of Shadows: a preservation effort

Like many of us, I grew up with Garden of Shadows. To me, it was more than just a forum. It was a place I could ask for help, learn new skills and, best of all, find amazing content in any style I could possibly want. I loved the board names, the people, the themes; everything, really.

And I admit I was more than a little heartbroken to find it gone.

After mulling it over, I decided that I wanted to preserve what I possibly could. I spent a few hours yesterday running through strategies and ideas about how to best go about it, and the best I could come up with was, well, exactly the same.

So, here it is: the Garden of Shadows mirror forum.

I've only just started, but I hope to add a little bit to it every day. The primary focus will be on preserving all the knowledge and custom content. I'm tackling it myself, but if you feel so inclined, you're more than welcome to join in.

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PS. I am not here to offend, break Terms of Use, or to step on any toes. This is simply an effort to preserve content and knowledge for a game I have played and loved for over twenty years. Thank you ♥

[hazelpuff]

4t2 Freya & Prudence

@candysims4 - Freya - ~11k - tf-ef

@ice-creamforbreakfast - Prudence - 4,6k - cf-ef

DOWNLOAD: FREYA | PRUDENCE

hairlines used in the previews

Please let me know if you have any issues with the hairs!

[nervosposts]

4t2 ShayeHair by @simstrouble 🌺

Thanks to @platinumaspiration ‘s amazing tutorial on hair conversions i now remember again how to convert to ts2

For YA/Adults/Elders

Gray binned to black

Poly : 16k

Original : (x)

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[asimplevampire]

Is there anyone who makes Assyrian/Babylonian/Akkadian CC for TS2? Anyone at all?